Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Funds State Dept/USAID Operations that Once Helped Trigger Polio Outbreak in Syria
Max Blumenthal | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
While the $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill was authored in the spirit of beating back a pandemic, buried deep within its text is a stipend for the US State Department operations dedicated to carrying out foreign interventions that have contributed …
globalresearch.ca/coronavirus-stimulus-bill-funds-state-dept-usaid-operations-helped-trigger-polio-outbreak-syria/5710449

Detroit, COVID-19 and the Worsening Capitalist Crisis
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
Detroit still remains at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic as infection rates continue at unacceptable levels amid the rapidly declining economic situation. | Although the rate of people entering hospitals suffering from the virus and the number of deaths are …
globalresearch.ca/detroit-covid-19-worsening-capitalist-crisis/5710543

India and Pakistan Increase Mutual Violence Amidst Pandemic
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
In the midst of the global pandemic, India and Pakistan are increasing mutual violence, without due attention being paid to the situation by the international media. Several violations of the ceasefire between the two countries have been taking place in …
globalresearch.ca/india-pakistan-increase-mutual-violence-amidst-pandemic/5710435

Trump Administration Orders Chevron to Shutter Venezuela Operations
Lucas Koerner | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
The United States Treasury Department gave California-based oil giant Chevron until December 1 to wind down its operations in Venezuela. | The Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued a temporary license Tuesday authorizing Chevron transactions and activities "necessary for …
globalresearch.ca/trump-administration-orders-chevron-shutter-venezuela-operations/5710567

Video: Government Forces Clash with Kurdish Militias Amid Israeli Strikes on Central Syria
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
On April 21, clashes broke out in the city of Qamishly between the Kurdish Asayish, a security force of the Syrian Democratic Forces, and the pro-government National Defense Forces. | Local sources claim that NDF units tried to capture several Asayish …
globalresearch.ca/video-government-forces-clash-kurdish-militias-israeli-strikes-central-syria/5710532

Africa Responds to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Abayomi Azikiwe | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
There are 55 member-states within the African Union (AU) where 1.2 billion people reside. | Governments throughout the continent have taken initiatives to reduce the threat of COVID-19 cases which have been confirmed in a majority of countries. | The Republic of …
globalresearch.ca/africa-responds-covid-19-pandemic/5710580

Future research and innovation leaders backed through flagship fellowships
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-04-23
Three Imperial researchers have been awarded Future Leader Fellowships from UK Research and Innovation to tackle pressing global challenges.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197036/future-research-innovation-leaders-backed-through

COVID-19: Will social distancing be the new normal? A Mayo Clinic expert discusses what the future might look like
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-23
As some states look toward relaxing restrictions and social distancing measures, such as stay-at-home orders, new projections suggest social distancing may need to continue through 2022. Researchers predict that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, will return every winter, and that prolonged or intermittent social distancing strategies could limit the strain on health care systems. …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/covid-19-will-social-distancing-be-the-new-normal-a-mayo-clinic-expert-discusses-what-the-future-might-look-like/

Monitoring the Public After Coronavirus
Philip Giraldi | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
It is too early to say when or even whether the siege initiated by the coronavirus will end, but many Americans and Europeans are speculating over what kind of countries will emerge on the other side. National Security Agency (NSA) …
globalresearch.ca/monitoring-public-after-coronavirus/5710551

When Oil Markets Go Viral
Adam Hanieh | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
The ecological dimensions of COVID-19 have become increasingly prominent in much recent discussion, with several important contributions exploring the pandemic in relation to capitalist agribusiness, widespread loss of biodiversity, and the destruction of natural ecosystems. There is, however, a further …
globalresearch.ca/when-oil-markets-go-viral/5710473

Coronavirus… What If?
Kimberly Brady | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
What if…? What if the number of Coronavirus cases is not accurate and is actually exaggerated by many times? What if the estimates are based on a flawed computer model? What if the developer of the model has so admitted? …
globalresearch.ca/letter-to-the-editor-what-if/5710574

Iran Harassing the US? Trump Threatens War?
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
The Iranian and US geopolitical agendas are world's apart. | Iran hasn't attacked another country in centuries, threatens none now. Claims otherwise turn truth on its head. | The US, in contrast, is at war on humanity at home and abroad

The Fire Fauci Brigade
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
The intemperate volcano that is the US President has done much to burn its way through prominent appointments. As the title of former GOP strategist Rick Wilson's book goes, Everything Trump Touches Dies. There seem few more important individuals …
globalresearch.ca/fire-fauci-brigade/5709696

India's Selective Embrace of Economic Nationalism Has Anti-Chinese Motivations
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
India's Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) took a page from Trump's playbook by selectively embracing economic nationalism after it revised its foreign investment policy to mandate that companies from neighboring states receive government approval prior to …
globalresearch.ca/india-selective-embrace-economic-nationalism-anti-chinese-motivations/5710571

Psychological Remarks on "Authority Obedience". Say No!
Dr. Rudolf Hà§nsel | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
What is happening in front of all our eyes at the moment is a huge scary dizziness. "Corona" is a geopolitical operation by the "global elite" and their "depopulation agenda" is real. Isolation imprisonment makes people sick and kills …
globalresearch.ca/psychological-remarks-authority-obedience/5710555

Iran's Military Satellite Launch, Pentagon Response, Trump Regime Threats
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
On Wednesday, Iran's IRGC launched a military satellite into orbit 265 miles in space above planet earth. | IRGC commander General Hossein Salami said the "successful launch of the satellite promoted new dimensions of the defense power of the Islamic Republic …
globalresearch.ca/iran-military-satellite-launch-pentagon-response-trump-regime-threats/5710559

Forgotten War Crimes: NATO's 1999 Attack on Serbia's State TV Headquarters "Wiped from the Record"
Shane Quinn | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-23
This article was originally published in 2018 following its 19th anniversary. Slight modification is made below for its 21st anniversary. | Twenty-one years ago, on 23 April 1999, a NATO missile attack on Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) headquarters killed …
globalresearch.ca/forgotten-war-crimes-nato-1999-attack-serbia-state-tv-headquarters/5625469

Science Saturday: Antibody testing, in pictures
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org | 2020-04-23
Convalescent plasma therapy for the treatment of COVID-19 virus infection is based on the function of antibodies, tiny proteins created by the immune system, that combat invaders to the body in a variety of ways. Some are capable of neutralizing a virus, while others work by mobilizing a range of other immune cells that fight …
newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/science-saturday-antibody-testing-in-pictures/

Moon's geology revealed in greater detail than ever before in first all-inclusive map (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
rt.com | 2020-04-23
For the first time in history, the entire lunar surface has been mapped and the geology classified, paving the way for safer future Moon landings and reminding us to look upwards once more. | Scientists from the USGS Astrogeology Science Center, in collaboration with NASA and the Lunar and Planetary Institute, have produced the 'Unified Geologic Map of the Moon,' at 1: 5,000,000 scale, marking the culmination of decades of work. | | © NASA/GSFC/USGS | "People have always been fascinated by the Moon and when we might return," said current USGS director and former NASA astronaut Jim Reilly. "So, it's wonde…
rt.com/news/486628-usgs-detailed-lunar-map/

Imperial geoscientists complete UK's first MSc virtual field trip
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-04-23
As part of the College's move to remote learning, thirty-five MSc Petroleum Geoscience students embarked on a simulated overseas trip to the Pyrenees.
imperial.ac.uk/news/196961/imperial-geoscientists-complete-uks-first-msc

Here's How the CARES Act Impacts Your Student Loans
Cody Hounanian, Lindsay Clark | thenation.com | 2020-04-23
Here's How the CARES Act Impacts Your Student Loans…
thenation.com/article/economy/heres-how-the-cares-act-impacts-your-student-loans/

Hundreds of laid-off Sweetwater teachers begin online teaching
wsws.org | 2020-04-23
While knowing they will not have a job next school year and facing unemployment in six weeks, hundreds of laid-off teachers in the San Diego district have gone back to work.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/23/educ…

Shakespeare on Trump
Entering 6th Week of Quarantine | indybay.org | 2020-04-23
As we enter the 6th week of quarantine due to Nazi Trump's inexcusable delay in preparing for a pandemic which was known to be a threat in November 2019 , the benchmark of literature in the English language, Shakespeare's writings, teach us that Trump is not an aberration.
indybay.org/newsitems/2020/04/20/18832516.php

COVID-19 enforcer of decade old tendencies: Rusnák
en.mehrnews.com | 2020-04-23
TEHRAN, Apr. 23 (MNA)

Knife crime in England and Wales rockets to RECORD HIGH in 2019, and true picture is probably even worse
rt.com | 2020-04-23
England and Wales suffered their worst year for knife crime since records began, with the number of offenses involving such sharp instruments soaring by seven percent in the year ending in December, according to official figures. | New data published by the UK's Office for National Statistics (ONS) on Thursday show that knife crime has increased by a massive 49 percent since records began in the year…
rt.com/uk/486627-knife-crime-record-high-2019/

It Could Be Several Years for 2 Leading COVID-19 Vaccines to Debut, Wall Street Analysts
Arlene Weintraub | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-22
Ever since President Donald Trump said last month that a COVID-19 vaccine could be ready in 12 to 18 months, Wall Street analysts have been warning that the real timeline is likely to be longer, even though more than 40 …
globalresearch.ca/it-could-take-5-years-covid-19-vaccines-debut-ai-analysis-finds/5710239

Spinning Rumors of Regime Change in North Korea: Deciphering the Deep State's Latest Kim Jong-un Conspiracy
Andrew Korybko | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-22
CNN's report from a single unnamed US government source that the North Korean leader "is in grave danger after undergoing a previous surgery" isn't all that credible, but the very fact that it's being pushed so strongly at this particular …
globalresearch.ca/deep-state-kim-jong-un-conspiracy/5710426

'Trump only wants to look strong & raise oil prices by threatening to shoot at Iranian gunboats'
rt.com | 2020-04-22
Neither Washington nor Tehran are looking for war, and Trump ordering the US Navy to destroy "harassing" Iranian vessels was likely an attempt to flex his muscles and send a signal to the oil markets, analysts have told RT. | "We have to distinguish between declarations and reality on the ground, where nobody wants a conflict" as it would be a "disaster" for both the US and Iran, Thierry Coville, research fellow at the French research organization IRIS, said. | Earlier on Wednesday, Trump ordered the US Navy to "shoot down and destroy" Iranian vessels if they "harass" American warships in the Persian Gulf. A w…
rt.com/news/486593-iran-us-navy-trump-oil/

No Justification for a Coronavirus. Deprive Americans of Their Civil and Individual Rights
Renee Parsons | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-22
In the aftermath of two national catastrophes (Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and 911 in 2001), past history has shown that the US Congress seized the opportunity to penalize Americans and deprive them of their constitutionally guaranteed civil and individual …
globalresearch.ca/no-justification-coronavirus/5710441

'Cruel and Outrageous': DeVos Blocks Undocumented Students From Receiving Coronavirus Emergency Aid
Julia Conley, staff writer | commondreams.org | 2020-04-22
Immigrant rights groups on Wednesday condemned the Trump administration's decision to exclude undocumented students from a $6 billion aid program that the Education Department unveiled earlier this month, calling the exclusion needlessly "cruel." | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files… …
commondreams.org/news/2020/04/22/cruel-and-outrageous-devos-blocks-undocumented-students-receiving-coronavirus?cd-origin=rss

Covid-19: Check the Source of your Information! War against… Corruption?
Dr. Pascal Sacré | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-22
Introduction | I am not a conspiracy theorist. I am not a great fan of social media, blogs or controversy on the Internet; nor am I a journalist, at least not by profession. | I am a doctor: seven years at medical …
globalresearch.ca/covid-19-check-the-source-of-your-information-war-against-corruption/5710511

Podcast: COVID-19 vaccine development, patient data and isolation diaries
imperial.ac.uk | 2020-04-22
In this edition: We hear from researchers working on a COVID-19 vaccine and with patient samples, and how students are coping in isolation.
imperial.ac.uk/news/197016/podcast-covid-19-vaccine-development-patient-data

China: Three Weeks in Quarantine for Those Arriving in Beijing
telesurenglish.net | 2020-04-22
People arriving in Beijing from abroad will have to complete an additional week of domestic quarantine after the two currently required. This implies that the number of weeks of mandatory confinement is raised to three. | RELATED: | Palestine Receives Medical Aid from China to Fight COVID-19 | Foreigners are currently banned from entering China, a national-level decision that exempts diplomats and some people related to trade or medical research. | Until now, regulations required…
telesurenglish.net/news/China-Three-Weeks-in-Quarantine-for-Those-Arriving-in-Beijing-20200422-0001.html

9/11 Truth: Under Lockdown for Nearly Two Decades
Max Parry | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-22
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary"

Video: Russian Fighter Jets Buzz US Spy Planes Off Syrian Coast
South Front | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-22
On April 20, gunmen attacked a vehicle of the US-led coalition moving along the road near the village of Roueished in the province of al-Hasakah. Syrian state media reported that the vehicle was destroyed and several US service members were …
globalresearch.ca/video-russian-fighter-jets-buzz-us-spy-planes-off-syrian-coast/5710390

Common Cruelty in Lockdown Time. Allowing Hatred, Fear and Paranoia to Cloud our Judgment
Christine E. Black | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-22
"Deer in the headlights look," wrote someone on social media about South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem, who was shown in an unflattering photo, after workers at a Smithfield plant in her state tested positive for the corona virus. "That …
globalresearch.ca/common-cruelty-lockdown/5710479

Is the CIA Preparing a Color Revolution in Cuba?
Germán Gorraiz López | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-22
The cessation of the United States blockade against Cuba, demanded for the twenty-eighth consecutive year in the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization and overwhelmingly approved by 187 votes in favor, 3 against (USA, Israel and Brazil ) and …
globalresearch.ca/cia-preparing-color-revolution-cuba/5710485

The New Senate $480 Economic Stimulus Bill. A "Social Safety Net" for Banks and Billionaires
Stephen Lendman | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-22
Republicans and Dems serve privileged interests exclusively on major issues, differing only rhetorically for political reasons. | At a time of economic shutdown with growing millions of Americans out of work, congressional focus is largely on helping monied interests. | It's unclear …
globalresearch.ca/vital-help-needed-omitted-new-senate-stimulus-bill/5710430

The Empty Celebration of Earth Day
Dr. Gary Null | globalresearch.ca | 2020-04-22
Fifty years ago I and other conservationists and public health advocates were thrilled with the idea of an annual Earth Day celebration to honor our planet. At that time, I had more requests from television and radio to speak about …
globalresearch.ca/empty-celebration-earth-day/5710388

United States: An 'all hands on deck' moment–Sixty six old new leftists urge support for Joe Biden
Paul Le Blanc | mronline.org | 2020-04-22
SDS, along with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), had been in the vanguard of the new left in the 1960s, and some of these oldsters now want to challenge a position taken by Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), currently the foremost organization on the left today. They tell us "this is an all hands …
mronline.org/2020/04/22/united-states-an-all-hands-on-deck-moment-sixty-six-old-new-leftists-urge-support-for-joe-biden/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=united-states-an-all-hands-on-deck-moment-sixty-six-old-new-leftists-urge-support-for-joe-biden

Israeli Troops Abduct 6 Palestinians, Assault Family Members in West Bank
IMEMC & Agencies | imemc.org | 2020-04-22
Israeli troops reportedly abducted, on Wednesday, a number of Palestinians from several occupied West Bank towns and cities. In Ramallah city, local sources reported that an Israeli army force broke into several Palestinian-owned homes, before they abducted Abdelrahman Elwi and Mohammad Hassan, who are both students at Birzeit University. The …
imemc.org/article/israeli-troops-abduct-6-palestinians-assault-family-members-in-west-bank/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=israeli-troops-abduct-6-palestinians-assault-family-members-in-west-bank

France finds smoking may help you RESIST Covid-19… if you don't mind dying of something else
rt.com | 2020-04-22
In a reversal of prevailing Covid-19 wisdom, a French study appears to show smokers are less at risk from the virus, affirming the results of an earlier Chinese study. The data aren't conclusive

New Model Shows Reducing Jail Population will Lower COVID-19 Death Toll for All of Us
Udi Ofer | aclu.org | 2020-04-22
The Trump administration optimistically projects that "substantially under" 100,000 people will die from COVID-19 in the United States. Horrific as that statistic is, a new model suggests it could be a huge underestimate. The government models fail to consider the impact of the virus on the incarcerated population, who will be infected and die at higher rates. And any prison or jail outbreak is bound to spill over into the broader community

UK coronavirus deaths may have reached 41,000, study finds
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-22
Deaths linked to coronavirus (Covid-19) in the UK may have already reached 41,000, according to new analysis.The Financial Times estimate is more than double the latest total announced by the Department of Health, which stood at 17,337 at 5pm on 20 April.The government's figure is based almost entirely on the deaths of hospital patients who tested positive for Covid-19.Differences in reporting mean this total can include a small number of deaths outside hospital that occurred in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.The Financial Times has used separate figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)…
thecanary.co/discovery/news-discovery/2020/04/22/uk-coronavirus-deaths-may-have-reached-41000-study-finds/

Startling disparities in digital learning emerge as COVID-19 spreads: UN education agency
news.un.org | 2020-04-21
With most of the world's students now at home due to COVID-19, the pandemic is revealing startling divides in digitally-based distance learning, data from the UN education and cultural agency, UNESCO, and partners has revealed.
news.un.org/feed/view/en/story/2020/04/1062232

Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen–The Centennial of His Birth
jamanetwork.com | 2020-04-21
On March 27, 1845 Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen was born in Lennep, Germany. He received his early education in the Netherlands and then studied under Clausius, teacher of Willard Gibbs, in Zurich, Switzerland. At Wàºrzburg he became assistant to Kundt. In 1874 he became privatdozent at Strasbourg University. In 1875 Roentgen was made professor of mathematics and physics at the Agricultural Academy of Hohenheim. He returned to Strasbourg in 1876, where he became extraordinary professor. In 1879 he was appointed ordinary professor of physics and director of the Physical Institute of Giessen, and in 1885 he became p…
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764694

Characteristics of Faculty Accused of Academic Sexual Misconduct in the Biomedical and Health Sciences
Espinoza M, Hsiehchen D. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-04-21
This study uses internet search data to identify and characterize biomedical and health sciences faculty at US higher education institutions who had sexual misconduct accusations against them between 1982 and 2019 that led to institutional or legal actions proving or supporting guilt.
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764695

Government plans to give poorer pupils free laptops 'do not go far enough'
The Canary | thecanary.co | 2020-04-21
The government's plans to ensure that disadvantaged children can access lessons online amid school closures "do not go far enough", campaigners say. | Education secretary Gavin Williamson has announced that free laptops or tablets will be given to disadvantaged pupils to help them learn at home amid the Covid-19 pandemic. | Disadvantaged secondary school pupils and care leavers who do not have mobile or broadband internet in their homes will also be provided with 4G routers. | But the Good Law Project (GLP), a legal campaign group which has previously brought cases against Uber and over Brexit, said the governmen…
thecanary.co/uk/news/2020/04/21/government-plans-to-give-poorer-pupils-free-laptops-do-not-go-far-enough/

COVID-19: Morrison attempts to blackmail teachers
pip.hinman | greenleft.org.au | 2020-04-21
Workers & unions Mary Merkenich David LindenIssue 1262 Australia COVID-19 Australian Education UnionApril 21, 2020…
greenleft.org.au/content/covid-19-morrison-attempts-blackmail-teachers

Correcting the Scientific Record–Retraction and Replacement of a Report on Dialysis Ownership and Access to Kidney Transplantation
Bauchner H, Flanagin A, Fontanarosa PB. | jamanetwork.com | 2020-04-21
The September 10, 2019, issue of JAMA included an Original Investigation titled "Association Between Dialysis Facility Ownership and Access to Kidney Transplantation" by Gander and colleagues, and an accompanying Editorial by Boulware and colleagues. The authors of the research report subsequently notified the editors that a major coding error had occurred in their data management and analyses, and that they discovered these errors had resulted in incorrect data in their published article. As reported in their letter of explanation, the authors performed a thorough reanalysis of their data to address these errors…
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2764685